Another Terror Bust In Kuwait

CNN is reporting that six Kuwaitis were arrested by Kuwaiti forces, breaking up an Al-Qaeda truck bomb plot to hit an American military base camp.

The suspects had planned to bomb Camp Arifjan during the upcoming Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Kuwaiti security sources said.

It is unclear when the arrests took place.

The plot also involved an attack on Kuwait's State Security Service headquarters and other government facilities, according to the Kuwait News Agency, which cited a statement from the Interior Ministry.

An investigation into the alleged plot linked to al Qaeda is ongoing, the news agency reported.

Two suspects confessed Tuesday that they planned to attack Camp Arifjan with an explosives-laden truck during Ramadan, which begins August 21, the security sources said.

The other four suspects will be interrogated Wednesday, the sources said.

Pentagon and U.S. military officials had no information about the reported plot on Camp Arifjan, the forward headquarters for the U.S. Army Central Command in the region.

It is a major logistics base for the U.S. military and generally houses thousands of American troops.

Thankfully, nobody was hurt. That's number one.

Issue two however is that getting ambushed in Iraq and Afghanistan is one thing. Getting attacked in Kuwait is entirely something else, and if it's true that the U.S. military had no clue about this attack, it either means something's rotten in Kuwait and we need to reevaluate our intel there, or that something's rotten in Kuwait and the Kuwaitis are up to something.

Either way, I don't like it. And it's just another sign of the times that new President Obama has old American military policy of empire across the globe.